war

Pronunciation: [wɒ:]

Average Rank: 475

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 战争, 战争状态, 战术, 军事, 冲突, 斗争, 竞争 vi. 进行战争, 作战, 打仗, 战斗 a. 战争的, 战时用的

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
  • n. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
  • n. an active struggle between competing entities
  • n. a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk cet4 cet6 ky
Word Forms:
Plural: wars
Present Participle: warring
Past: warred
3rd Person: wars
Past Participle: warred

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#193

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.1% (Top 98.1% most frequent)
98.1%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#869

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 91.3% (Top 91.3% most frequent)
91.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#362

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 96.4% (Top 96.4% most frequent)
96.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.

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